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Yeah no shit! What the fuck?!
Fuck every person that takes part in a bet like this. I'll put them in the same category as Trump voters. Scorched earth.
Just start a betting pool on if the kalshi or polymarket head offices get firebombed in the next 60 days, problem solved either way.
I didn't expect to open the comments and laugh. Well done.
Probably people who live in deserts or otherwise have never seen a tree in their life.
Cactus and sagebrush burns just as well.
People who live in deserts know three things, drought, fires and flash floods. Fires in the desert happen a lot. Probably way more than anywhere else.
Lemme rephrase a bit: people who bet on this sort of thing are probably ones who have only lived in a desert, never having seen a tree in the first place.
I'm sure there's plenty of fires in a hot place.
Trees exist in the desert